http://www.newcriterion.com/ en-us Copyright 2009, TheNewCriterion.com. All Rights Reserved info@ecomsolutions.net info@ecomsolutions.net http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Citizens-into-prisoners-4303 A foreword to The Berlin Wall: 20 years after Henry A. Kissinger http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Tyranny-set-in-stone-4304 Why we must not forget the lessons of the Berlin. Roger Kimball http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Russia-before-the-mirror--reflections-on-1989-4305 On the realities of cultural transformation in Russia. Jonathan Brent http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Weak-will--high-wall-4306 On President Kennedy s failure in the face of barbed wire. Donald Kagan http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-costs-of-abstraction-4307 On the intellectual irresponsibility of Soviet sympathizers. Anthony Daniels http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Amicus-4308 Karl Kirchwey http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Back-of-the-hand-4309 Dick Allen http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Mutabor--the-gorge-4310 Karl Kirchwey http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Margin-walkers-4311 On The Anthologist, by Nicholson Baker; Generosity: An Enhancement, by Richard Powers; Homer & Langley, by E. L. Doctorow; and Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, by Kazuo Ishiguro. Stefan Beck http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Antique-Romans---the-Dane-4312 On Jude Law in Hamlet, the Atlantic Theater Company s Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet, Collaborative Stages s House of Yes, and The Retributionists by Daniel Goldfarb. Kevin D. Williamson http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Watteau-at-the-Met-4313 On “Watteau, Music, and Theater” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Karen Wilkin http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Exhibition-note-4314 On The Art of Devotion: Panel Painting in Early Renaissance Italy, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont. Marco Grassi http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Exhibition-note-4315 On In Pursuit of Knowledge: 600 Years of Leipzig University, The Grolier Club, New York. Carl W. Scarbrough http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Exhibition-note-4316 On Georgia O Keeffe: Abstraction at the Whitney Museum of Art, New York. Mario Naves http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/New-York-chronicle-4317 On the Europeanization of the Metropolitan Opera, Alan Gilbert s New York Philharmonic, Paul Jacobs at Juiliard, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Jay Nordlinger http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Down-the-memory-hole-4318 On the art of forgetting selectively. James Bowman http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Zola-al--mode-4319 Brooke Allen http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Better-read-than-red-4320 David Pryce-Jones http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Soul-thief-4321 Barton Swaim http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Opiates-for-the-last-man-4322 Costin Alamariu http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Sliding-in-due-time-4323 Alec Solomita http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Something-intended-4324 Denis Donoghue http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Bart-k--Parry---Lord--a-flawed-legacy-4325 Debunking the myth of Homeric Balkan folk songs. Stephen Schwartz http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Yale---the-veil-4326 On Islamist pressure in New Haven. http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Gallery-chronicle-4327 On “Sam Francis: 1953–1959”at L&M Arts; “Jay Milder: Recent Work” at Lohin Geduld Gallery; “Abby Leigh: The Sleeper’s Eye” at Betty Cuningham Gallery and “Silver Anniversary: 25 Photographs, 1835 to 1914” at Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Fine Photographs. James Panero